On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:31:15 +0000, notbob wrote:
> On 2008-03-13, problems@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<problems@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Will do. BTW I'm not comfortable with using magic code when I have no
>> idea how it works.
>
> Good for you. I cannot disagree with your cautionary mindset. But,
> these are benign. OTOH, you are asking strangers to provide you with a
> solution. Is this not also putting you in a compromising position?
I think the OP just wanted to know *if* and was not begging for
a precooked recipe, but I could be wrong (I use conditional mode as
I miss to know the highlyincredible mode ;~)
> No
> problem. Disregard the former and look at the later. If you still want
> to persue sed/awk, check out (from library if need be) O'Reilly's book.
I'd say he already had good tracks to try and tread but before and/or
meanwhile the amazons darts him the books he may have some luck at
changing the groups he questions and ask in comp.lang.awk and
comp.unix.shell where he'll get much more scripting advice.
I set the FU2 comp.unix.shell as the OPQ was about ¿sed
